I'm a youth services librarian at a medium-sized library in the thumb of Michigan. This is a blog to explore what goes on here as I navigate children and adults.

Sunday, October 28, 2012

Two odd questions

The first one was actually fairly easy, despite the patron thinking it wouldn't be. The history of the chocolate chip cookie. Naturally, I couldn't find any books on it. But we do have the databases, and I was able to find several articles about it, and the original recipe.

Now, Ruth Wakefield, who owns the Toll House Inn, created it.

The second one was a happy answer. She was adopted, and wanted to look at the past birth announcements. That was easy-peasy, and I set her up on the microfilm machine with that specific month and showed her how to use it.